For accountancy firms

Accountants & auditors

Statutory deadlines, heavy volumes, compliance-driven relationships. These ten questions measure your firm on the two axes that decide it: validated answers, and legal data protection.

Before you start

10 questions, about 4 minutes
Two axes: the need for validated answers, and legal data protection
The result can also be: Kervalt is not a fit yet

1 / 10

The continuity of statutory deadlines in peak season rests on the people who know the files.

The Belgian compliance calendar is unforgiving.

What we are gauging: Whether statutory compliance depends on specific people being present. If a resignation threatens deadlines, knowledge is the single point of failure.

2 / 10

A tax inspection question about a 2022 position requires manually gathering source, reasoning, and approval.

'We will get back to you' is where fines begin.

What we are gauging: Audit readiness: how fast the substantiation of a past position can be produced, with source, reasoning, and approver.

3 / 10

Trained staff spend a large part of the week reading documents; the judging comes after.

Extraction work at advisory rates.

What we are gauging: The ratio of extraction work to judgment. Reading is not billable judgment; it is the profession's invisible margin leak.

4 / 10

Profitability per client and per dossier is not visible today; fees follow the tradition of the profession.

Twenty percent of clients are usually loss-making at current fees.

What we are gauging: Whether pricing is informed by per-client economics or by tradition. Firms usually discover a loss-making fifth of their client base here.

5 / 10

When a client forwards a 400-page annual report and asks what to worry about, the wait is days.

A cited red-flag brief the same afternoon is a premium product this workflow cannot deliver.

What we are gauging: Whether rapid, sourced analysis exists as a product, or clients wait days for what a machine-assisted workflow delivers the same afternoon.

6 / 10

The firm's working-method knowledge is concentrated in a few experienced people.

Turn the walking manual into the firm's spine before the farewell reception.

What we are gauging: How concentrated the firm's knowledge is in individuals, and what their departure would erase.

7 / 10

Our software vendor could raise prices or be acquired again, and leaving would cost us our data or our workflow.

An exit option reprices every contract negotiation.

What we are gauging: Dependence on a single vendor and the cost of exit. An exit option reprices every contract negotiation you are in.

8 / 10

Data from competitor clients can meet in the same AI context, and the Chinese wall is a policy, not an enforcement.

SQL-enforced isolation is the wall made of concrete.

What we are gauging: Whether confidentiality between competing clients is enforced or merely promised. Policy without enforcement is paper over a gap.

9 / 10

The exact location and access of processed client data cannot be fully demonstrated today.

Financial data deserves infrastructure you can point at.

What we are gauging: Whether data location and access are known and stateable: the first questions of any GDPR or client audit.

10 / 10

Demonstrating supervision of AI-assisted work requires an administration the workflow does not produce by itself.

Supervision records should be a by-product of working.

What we are gauging: Whether supervision of AI-assisted work leaves records or only habits. The ITAA will ask for the former.

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